Bayesian spatial models for small area estimation of proportions

Statistical Modeling

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 183-201

  Moura, Fernando A S ^a   Migon, H S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

finite population model; MCMC; model selection; small area estimation; spatial hierarchical models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993813873     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1471082x02st032oa     Document Type: Article

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